Fleeing fascism

Rose Holmes looks back at the British Quaker response to the European refugee crisis 1933-1945

Spanish boy refugees. | Photo: the Friends House Library.

History allows us the luxury of hindsight. In 1933, when fascism began to spread across the borders of Europe, few people realised the urgent need to enable refugees to flee fascist oppression. The Religious Society of Friends took an early lead in establishing programmes across Europe for refugee relief and rescue.

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